Comcast filed its two-year compliance report with the FCC required as a condition of its merger with NBC-Universal. The company acquired a 51 percent share of NBC-Universal in 2010 and has expressed its intent to acquire the remaining 49 percent of the company’s total shares still owned by GE. Comcast reported compliance with the merger conditions, citing its creation of two, independently-owned minority channels (ASPIRE and BabyFirst Americas), the addition of 1,000 more kids’ video-on-demand (VOD) channels than the condition required, and more local news.

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The Pentagon released a report assessing U.S. defense systems and the potential impact of a cyberattack. The report concludes the cyber threat to military systems is real and akin to the threat of a nuclear attack with enemies having the potential to “reverse engineer” critical IT systems, leaving the U.S. unprepared to defend itself. The report urged, “The United States cannot be confident that our critical Information Technology (IT) systems will work under attack from a sophisticated and well-resourced opponent utilizing cyber capabilities … DoD needs to take the lead and build an effective response to measurably increase confidence in the IT systems … We have recommended an approach to do so, and we need to start now!”

SNL Kaganreports that a number of “spectrum speculators“–i.e. those looking to capitalize from the FCC’s incentive auctions–have invested $345 million in both full and low-power TV stations since 2011.

IHS: Over one third (30.7 percent) of consumers in the market for a new TV want it to be capable of connecting to the Internet. Nearly 19 percent of consumers (18.8 percent) also want their new TVs to have 3D capability.

The EU fined Microsoft $732 million for failing to adhere to an antitrust settlement in which Microsoft was required to give new computer purchasers in Europe the ability to opt-out of using Internet Explorer in favor of other browsers.

A Carnegie Mellon study concluded the shutdown of Megaupload in 2012 led to an increase of between 2.5 and 3.8 percent in the sales of digital movies at two top Hollywood studios.

A survey of 2,500 game developers showed the majority of game developers–53 percent–were independent game developers rather than being affiliated with major gaming studios. Further, just 38 percent of the game developers surveyed reported their last gaming project was a mobile game, compared to 58 percent reporting their next gaming project would be developed for mobile devices.